Here’s a really good video explaining the situation we are facing. Thanks very much for making this!

I’ve been reading about SOPA and trying to really understand what it means and what its scope is.  Ain’t pretty, honey. Actually, it’s quite dark. A dark, scary place.

Image Above: screenshot of Wikipedia on blackout.  As someone who reads off Wikipedia quite a lot, this just makes me sad. T_T

Why SOPA Is Dangerous - the author sets examples to draw a picture of what could happen.
Confused by the Stop Online Piracy Act? Here’s ‘SOPA For Dummies’
These Websites Are Going Dark to Protest SOPA Wednesday - List of sites that announced their participation to protest
UNCENSORED – A personal experience with DMCA – UMG vs Veoh - a look on what could happen further down the dark side
Twitter  people are sharing a lot of thoughts and resources about the issue as well.
Flickr added a feature that will allow users to darken their photos to help raise awareness
Web Goes on Strike - http://sopastrike.com/
Wikipedia Blackout: 11 Huge Sites Protest SOPA, PIPA On January 18
Learn to Be a Better Activist During the SOPA Blackouts
WordPress.com Joins the Protest
 

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As I remember, I saw these words printed on a paper and posted on the board near a college instructor’s desk. Here, I’ve created a little poster out of it using the Futura Md Bt font, printed it and will post it on our office wall along with other posters. I’ll show you a pic of the wall when we’re done.~ It’s nothing fancy though. For now, here’s the “Assume Nothing” Poster:

Ang mga taong tulad kong walang magawa.

Sometimes your brain just wants a break from the daily grind, yeah? When I get to that state, I’d like to read and learn something new, figure out something cool ( or so I think it’s cool.)

Anyway, here’s a little peekaboo page where, by a few divs and a few styles, images do a Houdini in you when you scroll.

The really, really good application of the design principle for something like this is the “Nike Better World” page. (All hail!) WebDesignShock explains how it’s done, though I still miss the use of JQuery for it.

You may grab the markup and styles. Tons to learn for me from this point!

I remember one time my niece who just started college and was taking up programming classes asked me for HTML and other web books. She told me she has this project for class and she needed resources. Being a web worker and knowing there are tons online, my initial question was – ” Did you Google for them?” She told me she did, but could not find the ones she needed.

That’s just absurd to me. You can find almost anything online these days! Nevertheless,  I dug up my old programming books and even made her a CD copy of the ebooks (lots of them I got free online!) and sent all of them to her hoping they’ll be useful (and knowing they will if she get’s to reading them!) Books after all are most useful when you read them. I guess she just needed a little push to the right direction.

The internet is truly revolutionizing education. It’s actually one heck of a huge, gigantic library open to all who has a computer, an internet connection and the patience, perseverance and curiosity for learning.

Educate yourself and learn to create websites from w3schools
Website: http://www.w3schools.com/

Watch and listen to industry leaders  and pioneers from TED Talks
Website: http://www.ted.com/

Learn anything from anyone through Skillshare
Wesbite: http://www.skillshare.com/

Free Online Course Materials from the experts from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
Website: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Standford University online courses starting this month (free)
Entrepreneurship:

• Learn Launchpad
• Technology Entrepreneurship

Computer Science:

• CS 101
• Machine Learning
• Software as a Service
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Natural Language Processing
• Game Theory
• Probabilistic Models
• Cryptography
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
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Electrical Engineering:

• Information Theory

Complex Systems:

• Model Thinking